Silk
A natural protein filament fibre produced by silk moth larvae.
How it connects
Silk is a kind of Animal fibre.
Other kinds of Animal fibre: Alpaca, Angora, Camel hair, Cashmere, Horsehair, Mohair and Wool.
In other taxonomies
- silk (silkworm material)Getty AAT, 300014072nearly the same
- silkWikidata, Q37681nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Silk
8 terms, Wool to Horsehair
Record
- Broader
- Animal fibre
- Provenance
- referencedWikidata Q37681 silk, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37681, read 11 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/silkKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerAnimal fibreincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderAnimal fibreoutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Animal fibreoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural fibreoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Alpacaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Angoraoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Camel hairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Cashmereoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Horsehairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mohairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Wooloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300014072 | silk (silkworm material) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q37681 | silk | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Silk via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search?query=Silk&filter=status%3ACurrent | none |